There is a pig farm in Lety, south Bohemia, and a recreational site in Hodonin, south Moravia, in the places where the internment camps had existed.

The legislation should set down that a commemorative arrangement is in the public interest. This would also facilitate the property settlement with the owners and subsequent removal of the buildings there, Ruzicka told CTK.

According to the committee, the state should expropriate the facilities if it is in public interest.

The purpose of the expropriation must be defined by a special law. "The Czech and European societies urgently need such a special law defining the state's interest in the proper arrangement of the sites of both camps, whether anything will be expropriated or not," the committee said in a press release it will send to Stehlikova, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra.

Stehlikova told CTK earlier that she would like to convince the meeting that the state should buy the pig farm from its owner, the firm AGPI.

However, she said last week that due to the prohibitive price this would not be probably possible.

The state negotiated with the AGPI in the past, most recently in 2005, but in vain.

According to estimates, the price demanded for the premises could amount to one billion crowns, which is inadequately high, but no concrete sum has been released yet.

Romany activists have in the long run demanded that the pig farm in Lety be removed. They point out that it defames the victims' memory. At the end of January, the activists asked the U.N. for support in this case.

According to historical documents, some 1,308 Romanies were deported to Lety during WW2, while 326 people perished there and more than 500 of its inmates ended up in the extermination camp in Auschwitz.

A similar internment was also in Hodonin, where 207 prisoners died and 800 were sent to Auschwitz. At present there is a recreational facility at the same place.